# Ismail Bentabett

> Ismail Bentabett is a front-end focused full-stack engineer in Saida, Algeria. React, Next.js, Vue, Nuxt, TypeScript, Node and Laravel. 1,400+ Upwork hours with 100% Job Success. Open to remote roles and contracts.

I build product front ends in React, Next.js, Vue and Nuxt, and the APIs behind them. Freelance and in-house since 2019, for teams in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Algeria and the US. Open to remote roles and contracts.

## Pages

- [Home](https://ismailbentabett.pro/): who Ismail is and selected work
- [Work](https://ismailbentabett.pro/work/): every project, with live links and source code
- [ResumifyAI](https://ismailbentabett.pro/work/resumify-ai/): Upload a resume as a PDF and get a scored review with charts and concrete fixes.
- [PawTalk](https://ismailbentabett.pro/work/pawtalk/): Pet adoption in three parts: a swipe-to-match mobile app, a dashboard for shelters and a landing page.
- [Homepage studio](https://ismailbentabett.pro/work/homepage-studio/): 54 hand-built homepages for 18 trades, each one screenshotted and accessibility-checked by script before it ships.
- [Site Sledge](https://ismailbentabett.pro/work/site-sledge/): Websites and follow-up systems for contractors, which I run on the side.
- [Experience](https://ismailbentabett.pro/experience/): roles since 2019, study, certificates and skills
- [About](https://ismailbentabett.pro/about/): background, languages and how he works
- [Contact](https://ismailbentabett.pro/contact/): email and contact form
- [Now](https://ismailbentabett.pro/now/): what he is working on this month

## Key facts

- Role: Front-end focused full-stack engineer
- Location: Saida, Algeria (UTC+1 all year), working remotely
- Languages: Arabic (native), English (native or bilingual), French (professional working)
- Availability: Open to remote full-time roles and contracts
- Upwork: 1,404 hours since 2019, 100% Job Success, $30K+ earned
- Email: ismailbentabett@gmail.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/ismailbentabett
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ismailbentabett

## Experience

- Founder, Site Sledge (Jan 2026 to now)
- Front-end developer, Merchwell (Jul 2025 to Jun 2026)
- Sales and marketing specialist, Panturnal (Apr 2025 to Jan 2026)
- Front-end developer (React and Next.js), Maildroppa (Jan to Apr 2025)
- Founder and software engineer, Astrolean (Jan 2025 to Jun 2026)
- Front-end developer (Vue and Nuxt), Monday Merch (Dec 2023 to Sep 2024)
- Full-stack engineer, Telecom Radio Professionnel for Motorola Solutions (Jul 2022 to Dec 2023)
- Front-end developer (Vue), SIG Service (May 2022 to Jan 2023)
- Co-founder, front-end focused full-stack engineer, Shortcut (Jan 2020 to Dec 2023)
- Independent consultant, front-end focused full-stack engineer, Upwork (Jan 2019 to Jan 2024)

## Built in my jobs

- Site Sledge launch tool (Site Sledge, 2026): A private Next.js tool for my business. Add a contractor, press Launch, and it creates their GoHighLevel sub-account, writes the profile, brand, site copy and blog posts with AI, makes the images, pushes it all to GoHighLevel and checks the result. https://sitesledge.com/
- Command Center (Site Sledge, 2026): A planning app for running the business: niche research, an offer builder, a financial model, an outreach planner, a sales pipeline board, a client tracker, an SOP library and a map of the GoHighLevel automations. https://github.com/ismailbentabett/sitesledge-plan-center
- Merchwell storefront (Merchwell, 2025 to 2026): The Next.js front end for a branded-merch company: catalog, brand and product pages, cart and checkout, and a blog run from Sanity. https://www.merchwell.com/
- Merchwell Pack Builder (Merchwell, 2025 to 2026): A three-step builder where a team picks products, then packaging, then reviews a quote, with filters and a live pack total. https://www.merchwell.com/pack
- Sales and marketing at Panturnal (Panturnal, 2025 to 2026): A contract role on the business side: sales, digital marketing and social media outreach for a UK company. 
- Maildroppa (Maildroppa, 2025): Email marketing for small businesses. I built new marketing pages in Next.js and Tailwind, a React email builder, and the Directus connection behind the content. https://maildroppa.com/
- Astrolean (Astrolean, 2025 to 2026): A software venture I founded and built as its engineer, from the first idea to the code. 
- Monday Merch shop (Monday Merch, 2023 to 2024): The Nuxt e-commerce front end for a merch company in Rotterdam: product listing, filters and quotes. https://www.mondaymerch.com/shop
- Acile (SIG Service, 2022): A B2B mobile app that links shops with their distributors so they can order stock, built at SIG Service. It ships on Android and iOS. https://acile.app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acile.app https://apps.apple.com/app/id1600498073

## Other projects

- Site Sledge CDN (2026): The shared CSS and a small loader script for Site Sledge sites and GoHighLevel pages, served from Cloudflare Pages. https://cdn.sitesledge.site/
- Lead finder (2026): A Python tool on the Google Places API that splits a city into grid zones, finds small businesses by trade and exports them to CSV or Excel, with a small Flask screen to run it. 
- AquaFlow (2025): A concept store and marketing site for a water-bottle brand. https://aqua-flow-hydration-marketing-focused-app.vercel.app https://github.com/ismailbentabett/aqua-flow-hydration-marketing-focused-app
- Nebula (2024): A command-line tool that reads Vue, React, Svelte and Angular components and keeps only the CSS classes they use. https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ismailbentabett/nebula https://github.com/ismailbentabett/nebula
- TRP CMS (2023): The modular CMS from my TRP role: e-commerce, product filters, AI content drafts and posting to Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. https://github.com/ismailbentabett/trp-project
- Screamer (2023): A social network in .NET 7 clean architecture with an Angular front end, unit and integration tests, and Docker. https://github.com/ismailbentabett/Screamer
- Sweetr (2023): A Twitter-style feed with a SolidJS front end and a Laravel API. https://github.com/ismailbentabett/sweetr
- NeverNote (2023): A notes app that runs on the web, iOS and Android from one code base. https://github.com/ismailbentabett/NeverNote
- Silikan (2022): A marketplace for booking everyday home services, with live chat, built with a student team. https://github.com/silikan/client https://github.com/silikan/server
- Isiconic (2021): A social network for shoppers that is also a multi-vendor marketplace. https://github.com/ismailbentabett/isiconic_web_app
- Instagram clone (2020): Profiles, posts and follows, built to learn Laravel with a Vue front end. https://github.com/ismailbentabett/laravel-instagram-clone
- Shopping cart (2020): A small store with a cart and sign-in. https://github.com/ismailbentabett/shopping-cart-vue-vuetify-firebase
- Movie Info (2020): A mobile app for looking up films. https://github.com/ismailbentabett/Movie-Info
- BMI calculator (2020): A mobile body-mass-index calculator. https://github.com/ismailbentabett/Bmi-Calculator-App

## Skills

- Front end: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Vue, Nuxt, Pinia, Vuex, Angular, Tailwind CSS, Radix and shadcn/ui, Framer Motion
- Back end and data: Node.js, NestJS, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Laravel and PHP, Inertia, Filament, REST APIs, Firebase, Directus, Strapi, Odoo API, Python
- Mobile: React Native, Expo, Capacitor
- Tooling and practice: Git and GitLab CI/CD, Vercel, Vite, Playwright, Mocha, axe-core, Accessibility (WCAG), Core Web Vitals, OpenAI API, Anthropic API, Cloudflare Pages
- GoHighLevel and marketing: GoHighLevel, CRM automation, SMS and email follow-up, Zapier, n8n, Lead generation, Cold outreach, Cold calling, Appointment setting, Media buying, Meta ads, Social media marketing, Email marketing, WordPress, Shopify, Wix